Pages
Written by Dewey Bunnell and Gerry Beckley, ©1998
Found on Human Nature.

In this bookcase full of stories
You find some of them are true
Tales of love and glory
Many lives of daring-do
There is mystery and adventure
They lie waiting there for you
So step inside and find the other you

Take the high road tomorrow
But the low road today
Reading other's sorrow
Might just be the only way
The father hears confession
While the mother's feeling blue
These characters do what you want them to

In these pages we consume
Lives in many colors lovers in full bloom
And through the ages words are born
Speaking to the senses lifting the forlorn

There's glamour and dementia
A message from the tomb
Staircase to the heavens
And secrets in the room
When you are riding on that dark horse
To the one that got away
There's no regrets and no dues left to pay

'Cause in these pages we consume
Lives in many colors lovers in full bloom
And through the ages words are born
Speaking to the senses lifting the forlorn

Drifting down the river of the make believe
We laugh and grieve
Hoping for an ending of our own design
Where all is fine

In these pages we consume
Lives in many colors lovers in full bloom
And through the ages words are born
Speaking to the senses lifting the forlorn

In these pages we consume
Lives in many colors lovers in full bloom
And through the ages words are born... (fade)

Some thoughts by Jim Nakao: An outstandingly refreshing musical and literary journey through time. PAGES is ingeniously interwoven with all the thoughts and feelings derived from one's own travels through the written word. You might say the 6 paragraphs of lyrics portend quite a scholarly approach to a very interesting subject, namely books and written words. The subject matter is not any easy one to write a song about, a pretty complicated theme to tackle and the results are overwhelmingly successful. The song is acoustic based and moves along rather swiftly to the coloring of some lead notes on the 6 string guitar and the precise pattering of notes from the keyboard. It does have a fabulous bridge interlude where DEWEY changes his tonal pitch and really solos it. Overall the song is outstanding and does supreme justice to both DEWEY's singing prowess and his ability to pen some very scholarly lyrics. Along with GERRY, we expect DEWEY to continue stepping out of the "box" to anchor some real innovative and very difficult subject matter. A Renaissance man he his.